HOW CARELESS REMARKS COULD GET A PETTY BUREAUCRAT IN TROUBLE. I was a little amused when I heard over a radio station the report about a little known bureaucrat, who appears now in trouble because of her careless remarks in front of her subordinates, whose sensibilities she hardly knew. I did not know immediately that the unsavory news account was lifted from a news report of the opposition newspaper, Daily Tribune. The moral lesson is that respect and civility is important at all times. The appointing power and authority is vested on the person, who currently occupies Malacanang. It does not pay disrespectful and cocky to the person in authority, particularly when a bureaucrats fate depends on that appointing authority. Name-calling puts DoF official in ‘hot water’ Written by Tribune Wires Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:00 For allegedly referring to President Aquino as “kalbo” (baldie), Sheila Castaloni, officer-in-charge of the One Stop Shop Interagency Tax Credit and Duty Drawback Center (OSS-Center), is said to be in hot water, after Malacañang learned of what was described her “mischievous and careless remark,” Department of Finance (DoF) sources said yesterday. Castaloni was reported to have delivered the remark in a meeting with her staff at the OSS-Center shortly after the President had left for a 12-day working visit to four countries in Europe and the United States, DoF sources said. In front of her staff at the OSS-Center’s office, Castaloni reportedly read aloud a letter from an export firm that referred to her as a mere “OIC” of the OSS-Center, the DoF unit that handles the processing of all applications for tax credit certificates (TCCs) and their eventual issuance and transfer. Apparently peeved by the remark of the unidentified manager of the export firm, Castaloni was quoted as saying to her staff, “Pagdating ni Kalbo, bababa na ang appointment papers as executive director (When the bald guy returns, he will issue my appointment papers as executive director (of the OSS-Center).” DoF sources said the OSS-Center staff personnel were taken aback by Castaloni’s unexpected remarks and that the “kalbo” obviously pointed to the President, who has the constitutional powers to appoint officials to key positions in the Executive Department. “We did not expect her to be that disrespectful and cocky,” a DoF source said. Another source said: “She is somewhat weird.” Last modified on Monday, 29 September 2014 14:43
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